Gianni Infantino
speaker
322 appearances
22 recordings
11 series
first heard Mar 2020
last heard 30 Jun
Gianni Infantino’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, the economic impact only in the US is around 30 billion.
It's around 200,000 permanent jobs which are created.
As far as we are concerned, we have 5,000 employees working only on this.
We'll have around 300,000 people.
We will have 6 billion people in the planet watching the World Cup.
This is absolutely incredible.
It's 104 games, 104 matches in 39 days.
It's like 104 Super Bowls.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino argued that World Cup ticket prices are in line with playoff games in North American sports.
He pointed to the New York Knicks, whose NBA Finals tickets have soared into the thousands of dollars.
Fans have accused FIFA of deceptive sales practices, such as selling tickets with a desirable Category 1 designation, then assigning those buyers to seats it would later advertise as being in a less appealing tier.
On Tuesday, Texas became the latest state, along with California, New Jersey and New York.
to open an investigation into those sales tactics.
Infantino says lawyers vetted FIFA's practices and will make their case as needed.
Becky Sullivan, NPR News.
On Iran...
I'm very happy because I went to see myself the Iranian team in Turkey, in Antalya, in March of this year.
And when people were saying, well, it would be impossible for Iran to come to the World Cup, I told them and I promised them that they would come.
And if I had to go with a bus to Tehran and drive them
Here, I will do that.
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